Social Media Purge Backfiring? & the Real History of Fascism | Patrick Byrne Interview

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.5 • 13.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Patrick Byrne (Entrepreneur & former Overstock CEO) about the social media purge, social media censorship, the false history of fascism, and what we can learn from China. Patrick details how he founded Overstock.com and the importance of freedom of speech. He shares how the social media ban affecting conservatives and the big tech banning Trump from virtually all social media platforms will only create a demand for more alternatives like Locals. He also shares why he thinks section 230 should be repealed. He also shares how Milton Friedman convinced him to become an advocate for school choice and why so many people have a poor knowledge of history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Joining me today is the former CEO of Overstock.com, a man dubbed the Renaissance man of e-commerce
0:14.4	by Fortune Magazine, a cryptocurrency enthusiast, and more.
0:18.9	Patrick Byrne, welcome to the Ruben Report.
0:21.9	It is such an honor to be on your show, David.
0:23.8	It really is.
0:24.8	I've been watching you for four years and just become a session that's bought.
0:28.2	I feel I've made the big time.
0:29.9	This is it, man.
0:30.9	I mean, look, I went through your bio today and I said, okay, there's some impressive
0:34.7	stuff here, but this is it.
0:36.3	This is it.
0:37.3	Yes, and no, it reads better as they say in theater.
0:41.2	It all reads better than it played.
0:43.0	My bio.
0:44.0	But no, this is it.
0:45.0	Making it here is, I think that you have become such an intellectual center of gravity for
0:50.3	the freedom movement that I'm really excited to be on the show.
0:53.1	Nice.
0:54.1	Well, we appreciate that and we happened to bump into each other just a couple weeks ago.
0:58.4	It was the second time.
0:59.4	You didn't even remember the first time because it was backstage at some y'all event or
1:02.7	something, but we saw each other.
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